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"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "prékar",
"sense": "nickname",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пре́кар"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "nickname",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tilnavn"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "nickname",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "kallenavn"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "nickname",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cognomen"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"cognomen"
],
"word": "cognomen"
}
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